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- catalog abstract ""Suburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U.S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain-enameled steel houses in a one-million-square-foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses per day, each neatly arranged on specially designed tractor-trailers for delivery throughout the country. Lustron's unprecedented size and scope of operations attracted intense scrutiny. The efficiencies of uninterrupted production, integrated manufacturing, and economies of scale promised to lead the American housing industry away from its decentralized, undercapitalized, and inefficient past toward a level of rationalization and organization found in other sectors of the industrial economy." "The company's failure marked a watershed in the history of the American housing industry. Although people did not quit talking about industrialized housing, enthusiasm for its role in the transformation of the housing industry at large markedly waned. Suburban Steel considers Lustron's magnificent failure in the context of historical approaches to the nation's perpetual shortage of affordable housing, arguing that had Lustron's path not been interrupted, affordable and desirable housing for America's masses would be far more prevalent today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13252480.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Suburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U.S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain-enameled steel houses in a one-million-square-foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses per day, each neatly arranged on specially designed tractor-trailers for delivery throughout the country. Lustron's unprecedented size and scope of operations attracted intense scrutiny.".
- catalog description ""The company's failure marked a watershed in the history of the American housing industry. Although people did not quit talking about industrialized housing, enthusiasm for its role in the transformation of the housing industry at large markedly waned. Suburban Steel considers Lustron's magnificent failure in the context of historical approaches to the nation's perpetual shortage of affordable housing, arguing that had Lustron's path not been interrupted, affordable and desirable housing for America's masses would be far more prevalent today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "An uncomfortable convergence: housing reform and industrial influences -- Crisis management and the rise of the Lustron Corporation -- From politics to production -- Adventures in sales and marketing -- A dream denied -- A porcelain-enameled legacy.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-231) and index.".
- catalog description "The efficiencies of uninterrupted production, integrated manufacturing, and economies of scale promised to lead the American housing industry away from its decentralized, undercapitalized, and inefficient past toward a level of rationalization and organization found in other sectors of the industrial economy."".
- catalog extent "x, 248 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Suburban steel.".
- catalog identifier "0814209610 (Cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0814290310 (CD-ROM)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Suburban steel.".
- catalog isPartOf "The urban life and urban landscape series".
- catalog isPartOf "Urban life and urban landscape series.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Suburban steel.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "338.7/69081/0973 22".
- catalog subject "Business failures United States.".
- catalog subject "Housing United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Lustron Corporation History.".
- catalog subject "Prefabricated houses United States History.".
- catalog subject "TH4819.P7 K59 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "An uncomfortable convergence: housing reform and industrial influences -- Crisis management and the rise of the Lustron Corporation -- From politics to production -- Adventures in sales and marketing -- A dream denied -- A porcelain-enameled legacy.".
- catalog title "Suburban steel : the magnificent failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945-1951 / Douglas Knerr.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".